Initial and Continuing Professional Development

All of the GEES Subject Centre activities and services provide professional development opportunities for those who teach and support learning in the disciplines. In addition, the Subject Centre is supporting the increasing demand for formal initial and continuing professional development (from academic and support staff, professional bodies and funding councils) through a broad spectrum of activities including opportunities to:

• Publish articles on learning and teaching research and development;
• Network and share practice with colleagues locally, nationally and internationally;
• Develop a better understanding of particular aspects of learning and teaching (e.g. through thematic projects, publications and development events).

In addition, the Subject Centre offers a ‘CPD Advisory Service’ to support practitioners in considering their own CPD needs and reflecting on their participation in our activities; and to advise generic educational developers on how the GEES Subject Centre might contribute to their programmes. For more information contact info@gees.ac.uk

Following conversations with the Geological Society, Institution for Environmental Sciences and the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geography, it has been agreed that contributions to GEES Subject Centre activities may count towards the CPD requirements for chartered status.

More information and forthcoming activities for new and aspiring lecturers (including details of our annual residential workshop), and more experienced staff can be found on our For staff page.

Example Resources

• Article: CPD in Higher Education: what do academics do? (Planet Issue 13 2004 PDF file)
• Report: Professional Development for External Examiners in GEES (2004)
• Past Event: ‘Supporting the Supporters’ Encouraging CPD for GEES Support Staff (2004)
• Past Event: Academic Leadership in GEES Programmes and Departments (2006)
• Web-site: The Higher Education Academy Supporting New Academic Staff (SNAS) Database

More publications, projects and examples of practice can be found in our Resource Database. We also maintain an archive of our past events, including abstracts and presentations where available.